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The 5th Edition of ACIÔÇÖs European Biopolymer Summit will be taking place on 14th ÔÇô 15th February 2018 in Dusseldorf, Germany. The two day event specially designed to bring together senior executives, key industry experts, researchers and bioplastic manufacturers, to exchange and share their experiences and research results on all aspects of bioenvironmental polymer engineering, most recent innovations, trends and concern as well as solutions adopted in the sector.
ItÔÇÖs also provides platform to meet experts form other industries such food & beverage, product & packaging and automotive to discuss the latest strategies on commercialisation, application and market access of biopolymer products and methods to overcome current market challenges and maximise the opportunities.
The previous editions brought together industry professional from companies including Novamont, BASF, Biotec, NatureWorks, BIO Amber, Braskem, DuPont, Kaneka, Nestl├®, Danone, Nippon Gohsei Europe GmbH, Corbion, FkuR Kunstoff GmbH and many more.
Confirmed Topics for Discussion:
Environmental Policy Impact on Biopolymer Industry
Brand Owners and Retailers Perspective on the Growing Role of Biopolymers
Polymer Fundamentals: the Best Performing Features of the Design and Properties of Biodegradable polymers
Commercialisation & Market Access
Next Generation Polymers: Biopolymers with Advanced Functionalities for High Performance Applications
Pioneering New Processes & Technologies
Biopolymers Producers Case Study: Exploring the Excellence
Challenges of Sourcing Sustainable Feedstock used in Production of BioÔÇô based Polymers
Conference Speakers:
Drilona Shtjefni, Deputy Secretary General , European Biomass Industry Association
Confirmed Speakers Include:
Patrick Schiffers, CEO, Synvina C.V
Christophe Cabarry, CEO & Founder,SpecialChem S.A.
S├©ren Kristiansen, Sr. Technology Director Materials, LEGO
Maira Magnani, Advanced Materials & Processes, Ford Research & Innovation Center
Norbert Schmitz, Managing Director, ISCC GmbH
Patrick Zimmermann, Director Marketing & Sales, FKuR Kunststoff GmbH
Lidia Garcia, Head of Biopolymers, BARBARA coordinator, AITIIP
Berta Gonzalvo Bas, Head of Research, AITIIP
Sarah Montes, Coordinator of KARMA 2020 Project, Polymers & Composite Unit, CIDETEC
Wladimir Moraes, Marketing Director, Bio Amber
Gert Coun ,New Business Development and Innovation Manager, Sabic
Patrice Conner,Senior Project Manager in Standardization, AFNOR Standardization
Christian P. Lenges, Business Development Manager, DuPont
Bert Clymans, Business Development Manager Europe, Total Corbion PLA bv
Sam Deconinck, Lab Manager, OWS (Organic Waste System)
David Thomas, Senior Scientist, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd
Jasmin Bauer, Project manager Dipl. Ing, KNOTEN WEIMAR Internationale Transferstelle Umwelttechnologien GmbH ÔÇô Institut an der Bauhaus-Universit├ñt Weimar
Eelco Blum, Vice President of Business Development, Renewable Chemistries, Avantium
Luc Mathis, Chief Business Officer, Global Bioenergies
Elena Benedetti, Product Application, AEP Polymers srl
Fabian Loske, Consultant and LCA specialist, thinkstep AG


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Councillor Rob Humby, Executive Member for Environment and Transport, said: "The winter of 2013/2014 saw some of the heaviest rainfall in 200 years, resulting in areas of flooding affecting residents across the county, including A32 which was impassable for around two months. While I hope we don't see such severe weather for many more years to come, we have been working hard ever since to secure funding and design schemes to help alleviate flooding in the future.
We are working with our partners to put in a series of measures to ensure areas at high risk of flooding are better protected and more resilient. I hope that this will reassure residents that the County Council is doing all it can to mitigate the impact of future flooding across Hampshire."
Measures in Farringdon include:
Removing vegetation to ensure flow paths for water are clear
Surveying, and clearing existing ditches, culverts and pipes
Replacing, upsizing and installing new pipes or culverts (where necessary)
The new measures will improve the management of surface water, and reduce the risk of flooding on the A32. The work will be completed in two phases starting this autumn.
The improvements will help to reduce costs, distress and disruption associated with future flooding, minimise the impact on the local economy and ensure that the highway network can remain open.
Lower Farringdon has a long history of repeated flooding, primarily from groundwater sources. In the winter of 2013-14, flood water discharged onto the A32 and flowed towards the Lower Farringdon crossroads. The A32 was closed for two months, causing significant access and travel disruption to residents, businesses and commuters.


text: Michael Eisenstadt is a senior fellow, and director of the Military and Security Studies Program at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy. A specialist in Persian Gulf and Arab-Israeli security affairs, he has published widely on irregular and conventional warfare and nuclear weapons proliferation in the Middle East. His most recent publications include: Not by Sanctions Alone: Using Military and Other Means to Bolster Nuclear Diplomacy with Iran (The Washington Institute, 2013); Beyond Worst Case Analysis: Iran's Likely Responses to an Israeli Preventive Strike (with Michael Knights, The Washington Institute, 2012); Nuclear Fatwa: Religion and Politics in Iran's Proliferation Strategy (with Mehdi Khalaji, The Washington Institute, 2011); The Strategic Culture of the Islamic Republic of Iran: Operational and Policy Implications (Marine Corps University, 2011), and; Iran's Influence in Iraq: Countering Tehran's Whole-of-Government Approach (with Michael Knights and Ahmed Ali, The Washington Institute, 2011). Prior to joining the Institute in 1989, Mr. Eisenstadt worked as a military analyst with the U.S. government. Mr. Eisenstadt served for twenty-six years as an officer in the U.S. Army Reserve before retiring in 2010. His military service included stints in Iraq; Israel, the West Bank, and Jordan; Turkey; the Office of the Secretary of Defense; the Joint Staff, and; U.S. Central Command headquarters. In 1992, he took a leave of absence from the Institute to work on the U.S. Air Force Gulf War Air Power Survey. Mr. Eisenstadt earned an MA in Arab Studies from Georgetown University and has traveled widely in the Middle East.


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When the season ends and the ol' news tap stops a-flowin', most team-specific websites switch immediately into delivering some of the most predictable types of content imaginable. Season overviews! Player-by-player postmortems! Offseason game plans!
There are a whole lot of quiet months to fill, so I can be as guilty of that as the next guy, but for the love of god, let's at least put a twist on it!
And so over the next couple of weeks I'm going to do just that, taking a look at the Blue Jays figures who take the most shit from the fan base and asking the question: do the haters have a point?
Third on the list: R.A. Dickey
Previously: Jose Bautista, Brett Cecil
R.A. Dickey's Blue Jays career ended rather quietly this September. That isn't "fitting," precisely, given all the noise made about him over his four seasons here, but it's definitely welcome and well-deserved. You can rest now, R.A.
Dickey, of course, was supposed to be the cherry on top of the glorious cake Alex Anthopoulos had baked heading into the 2013 season. Only the cake came out of the oven lopsided, the cherry turned out to be mostly corn syrup, and one of the lottery tickets you traded for it hit the goddamned jackpot.
His incredible 2012 suggested huge possibilities for a Blue Jays club that almost never has the opportunity to add Cy Young-calibre pitching talent at peak value. At worst it seemed that the Jays would be getting the above average workhorse that Dickey had been in 2010 and 2011, before he added a little extra zip on his knuckleball that seemed to unlock so much of his potential. But he was never even quite that.
His "capricious animal" would never dazzle in the climate-controlled conditions of the Rogers Centre the way the Jays envisioned after watching Dickey's incredible complete game, 13 strikeout, one hit effort in Tampa during his run to the Cy Young, yet he provided the Blue Jays with a whole lot of innings over the years, and consequently a whole lot of value. But it wasn't merely innings. Because of the assumptions FIP makes about a pitcher's inability to control the quality of contact, a knuckleball pitcher like Dickey is never going to look fantastic by that metric or by FIP-based WAR, but if you look at his ERA or his RA9-WAR (wins above replacement based on runs allowed), you'll see more than just a solid pitcher. Dickey had some truly excellent stretches for the Jays, in particular during the second half of 2015, when he pitched to a 2.80 ERA over 15 starts.
More than that, Dickey turned out to be a warrior — he'd pitched through a hernia in his Cy Young year with the Mets, held off knee surgery until after the 2015 season, and kept logging innings despite a variety of ailments. He was also a fascinating, admirable, thoughtful human being. He shared his story of sexual abuse and worked with young victims, he wrote an anti-bullying children's book, he travelled to India to help fight child sex trafficking there. His openness with the media at times felt attention-seeking — which had been his reputation in New York — but in reality it was seems just as likely that reporters simply understood that he was always going to give them a good quote and a well-reasoned answer, or maybe that they could relate to him in a way they couldn't with most athletes.
He was a good soldier for the team, and a decent pitcher in the overall, who simply never lived up to the hype.
That might be the end of the story, but, of course, it's not.
It's almost impossible to talk about Dickey without re-litigating the trade that brought him here. Especially because the New York Mets have helped Noah Syndergaard become one of the truly great young starting pitching talents in baseball. Watching his continued success, and the blossoming of the long, great career he seems to have ahead of him, has been a gut-punch for Jays fans. Even those of us who understand that moving up the club's timeline was an essential part of the bargain the club was making when they made the deal can't help but feel remorse for what might have been.
The team could have been just as bad in 2013 and 2014 without Dickey. And if they'd had Syndergaard in 2015 and 2016? Sheeeiiiiiit.
None of that is Dickey's fault, but it certainly didn't help fan perception. Nor did the way he stumbled out of the gate for the Jays.
The beginning of 2013 saw a J.P. Arencibia passed ball disaster on Opening Day, and six outings allowing six or more runs in Dickey's first 16 starts for the club. Immediately it seemed clear that the 2012 magic hadn't followed him from New York, and ultimately that proved to be basically true. Which isn't to say that, in that first year, Dickey didn't have some good moments. He exited nine of his 34 starts that first year having allowed either zero or one run. He exited seven more having given up only two. But in nine others he left the game having given up five runs or more.
Though 2013 was his worst season with the club (until this one), and things got better over the following two years, the perception of his outings as having as good a chance of tending to one extreme as the other proved awfully difficult to shake. And with the failed hype factor, and the Syndergaard factor, he was always going to be fighting an uphill battle against perception.
To an extent that's understandable. Nobody can act like they knew all along Syndergaard was going to be what he has become, but the trade itself was still a gut-punch for a certain segment of fans who had swallowed so hard on Alex Anthopoulos's prospect-first worldview over the first few years of his regime that they forgot it was always going to be a means to an end. In justifying it as the news was breaking, I felt the need to speak to those fans, as I acknowledged the "insanely puking high cost," that it could "come back to haunt Anthopoulos," and that an AL GM who suggested Alex was "out of his mind" "might even be right." R.A. Dickey was polarizing from the start.
But did his mere presence have to continue to polarize for the entire length of his damn Blue Jays career??
The verdict:
Nobody could fault Jays fans for their profound disappointment in how the trade worked out, or even for the righteous anger they felt as the deal was happening. Some combination of those feelings is, I think, universal across the fan base. But there is a deeper rift among Jays fans when it comes to Dickey. On one hand there are the grown-ups who can try to see the deal for what it was, Dickey for the pitcher he is, and can root for him, or at least try to have some kind of appreciation without making themselves sick with frothing anger at his finicky trick pitch, the fact that he forces the club to carry Josh Thole (who will get his own piece in this series), or the fact that he's been made an emblem of those two failed seasons in 2013 and 2014 and the loss of one of the most exciting young pitchers in the game. And on the other hand there are the haters — those that stew, that call up Mike Wilner to vent, that act like Dickey is virtually unplayable and his presence is madness, that cling tight to every bad moment and ignore all the good.
Dickey had a poor 2015, especially in the second half, and you're certainly not a hater for having noticed that. But he also exited 13 of his 29 starts having given up two runs or fewer, plus six more having given up three. And while that's no way to assess a pitcher, it makes abundantly clear that even in his worst season he was far from a disaster waiting to happen.
I'm not telling anybody that they had to be comfortable with Dickey on the mound — I certainly wasn't, and I wasn't above groaning each time I realized I had made plans to go to a game that ended up lining up with his day to start, either. A lot of that had to do with the knuckleball itself, and how startling it is to watch a 40-year-old throwing 75 mph to big league hitters and banking on a whole different application of physics than in the more easily harnessed pitches we're used to. But, if I'm being honest, a lot of it had to do with the fact that Dickey was merely a back-end starter — much more "good enough" than "great," or sometimes even "good."
He's a guy who would have been far better appreciated if he'd come in quietly and made less money and still given the Jays exactly what he did over these last four seasons. But obviously that's not his story.
A certain segment of fans ended up wanting very badly to dislike R.A. Dickey. To make him (and, eventually, Jose Reyes) wear all the anger and loathing they felt about the promises unkept from those disaster seasons in 2013 and 2014. To look past what he was, to what they wanted him to be, and to shit on him for not being it.


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Communicating at work can be a confounding experience.
Simple messages are often misconstrued, taken out of context or just
ignored. Communication is typically an afterthought—an anonymous offensive
lineman who is essential to the team yet woefully overlooked. Half-hearted
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There's no secret recipe for whipping up crystal-clear communication, but
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1. Levity
Corporate communication often sounds robotic, stilted and solemn. A stiff
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Don't you typically bail upon sight of "synergy" or "innovation"? So do
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[RELATED: Develop a workplace culture that attracts and supports employees of all ages and backgrounds.]
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It's more a matter of warmth. Whenever possible, inject a measure of levity
into your messages. Shoot for gregarious instead of
grandiose—conversational as opposed to condescending.
Think in terms of people: Do you prefer hanging out with light-hearted,
affable people or super-serious, high-strung, pompous types? In
communication, you catch more flies (and eyes) with honey than with
2. Brevity
There are, presumably, people out there who still love longform. Bless
their hearts.
Most human beings prefer that you get straight to the point. Regardless of
your message or medium, make it snappy.
If you hand a child a mango, they'll probably just throw it at a sibling,
but if you remove the skin and hand them slices of the meaty cheeks,
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Remove excess and distribute the choicest cuts of your message. That's how
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What's in it for your readers? How will your message increase their
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ZombiU was one of the more heralded launch games for the system that was designed to immerse you in a zombie survival experience like no game had before it. We covered the game, and even did a multi-part playcast on the game that you can check out.
Ubisoft has announced that the game will be coming to PS4, Xbox One and PC on August 18th. The game will be rebranded as Zombi. Fans of the game had hoped that it would start a new franchise that would be exclusive to Wii U, but Ubisoft President Yves Guillmont has gone on record saying the original release was not profitable for the company.
According to the developer the game is being optimized for the current systems. It will be interesting to see how the game transitions to the platforms that don't have the tablet as that was an integral part of the experience on Wii U, allowing you to manage inventory without having to pause the game. That also meant that zombies could sneak up on you while you were paying attention to the Game Pad creating an atmosphere that may be hard to match, even with the power of the newer consoles.


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Canon to the Ordinary
A Fond Aloha To Canon Liz
Note from Communications: In a letter dated May 9, 2014, Cn. Liz Beasley shares her future plans that will take her to Ireland, and her resultant departure from the Diocese of Hawai'i. You may read her letter by clicking on the image below left, and also the Bishop's letter at right. Aloha and mahalo Canon Liz, for all of your dedicated service to the Episcopal Church in Hawai'i. You will be deeply missed!
Diocese Creates Program to Train People for Ordination
May 15, 2013 - The Episcopal Diocese of Hawai'i now has two different programs that give the necessary formation for ordination. (By "formation," I essentially mean education plus experience.) One program is for ordination as a Deacon, and one is for ordination as a Priest. These programs have been developed for two purposes: (1) to raise up from within the members of our congregations the future ordained clergy of the Diocese, and (2) to provide the necessary formation for ordination. That formation needs to be complete and substantive, and also delivered locally. We still do send people to seminary (we currently have one person in seminary, and in September will have a second), but we also need a means of local formation... Read more
Searching for a Priest in the Diocese of Hawaii
May 1, 2013 - "Deployment." For years that strange word has meant in the Episcopal Church the "search process," whereby priests looking for a new position and churches looking for a new priest engage in a series of communications and interviews, until finally (everyone hopes) a match emerges between an applicant and a church, a call is extended, and a new ministry begins... Read more
Bishop's Office Updates
January 29, 2013 - The Office of the Bishop has been fairly quiet lately, at least in the office (not necessarily on the phone or in emails!). Bishop Fitzpatrick has been on sabbatical since December 28... Read more
Shared Reflections
March 2012 - In early 2012, Bishop Fitzpatrick asked me to write some reflections on how we might develop patterns of shared ministry in the Diocese of Hawai'i. Specifically, he was asking me to apply to our life here in Hawai'i what I had learned and observed in the Church of Ireland while on sabbatical in the spring of 2011. As I wrote my reflections, I discovered that shared ministry (whether this means congregations sharing clergy or simply cooperating together in ministry together) has implications for a number of other areas of our common life (such as clergy compensation and training for lay ministries).
Attached here as a PDF document are my reflections, entitled "Reflections on Shared Ministry in the Diocese of Hawai'i". They are intended as a conversation starter and not as a "command from on high."
The Clergy Leaders We Need
September 28, 2011 - The Diocese of Hawai'i, like most dioceses, has found that particular qualities and habits in its clergy are beneficial for serving the congregations here. Below are qualities and habits of life and of mind that we who work in transition ministry in the Episcopal Diocese of Hawai'i have found to be helpful... Read more
Learning from Ministry in the Church of Ireland
July 2011 - I was on sabbatical from March through June 2011. I spent the first half of it in Ireland, with a brief stopover in England. I had lived in Ireland for several years immediately after I graduated from college, but had not returned for many years. My purpose in going this time was to observe how the Church of Ireland trains people for ordination, how they train and enlist Lay Readers, and how churches share clergy. In these matters, I was able to learn a great deal. I also found the experience — including the planning and execution of the trip — to be spiritually enriching, as God taught me things for which I had not planned. Upon my return, I submitted a report to the Bishop and the Diocese entitled "Learning from Ministry in the Church of Ireland: Sabbatical 2011 Report."
Returning to Work from Sabbatical
July 16, 2011 - Well, I obviously quit writing my blog once I returned home from my travels on May 6. I thought that you really didn't need to hear about my time at home in Ka'a'awa, where I continued to do some reading, writing, and thinking about the topics I went to Ireland to learn about. I also spent time cooking, walking on the beach, and attempting to clear vines out of the jungle behind my back fence, so that I could see the coconut palms and the bright-red heliconia that were hiding back there.
I've been back at work for two weeks. As much as I enjoyed my time on sabbatical, it is also good to be back at work. I do love what I do. I have long recognized that not everyone is able to do work they love, so I am grateful that God led me to something that I enjoy and that I get to do it.
I have written a report on my sabbatical, as clergy are expected to do, and given it to the Bishop first and then, at his request, to others in leadership in the Diocese.
I can sum up "what I learned on my sabbatical" in a list of several things:
The Rev. Cn. Elizabeth P. Beasley
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A fresh look at the life and times of Victoria Woodhull and Tennie Claflin, two sisters whose radical views on sex, love, politics, and business threatened the white male power structure of the nineteenth century and shocked the world. Here award-winning author Myra MacPherson deconstructs and lays bare the manners and mores of Victorian America, remarkably illuminating the struggle for equality that women are still fighting today. Victoria Woodhull and Tennessee qTennieq Claflin-the most fascinating and scandalous sisters in American history-were unequaled for their vastly avant-garde crusade for women's fiscal, political, and sexual independence. They escaped a tawdry childhood to become rich and famous, achieving a stunning list of firsts. In 1870 they became the first women to open a brokerage firm, not to be repeated for nearly a century. Amid high gossip that he was Tennie's lover, the richest man in America, fabled tycoon Cornelius Vanderbilt, bankrolled the sisters. As beautiful as they were audacious, the sisters drew a crowd of more than two thousand Wall Street bankers on opening day. A half century before women could vote, Victoria used her Wall Street fame to become the first woman to run for president, choosing former slave Frederick Douglass as her running mate. She was also the first woman to address a United States congressional committee. Tennie ran for Congress and shocked the world by becoming the honorary colonel of a black regiment. They were the first female publishers of a radical weekly, and the first to print Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto in America. As free lovers they railed against Victorian hypocrisy and exposed the alleged adultery of Henry Ward Beecher, the most famous preacher in America, igniting the qTrial of the Centuryq that rivaled the Civil War for media coverage. Eventually banished from the women's movement while imprisoned for allegedly sending qobscenityq through the mail, the sisters sashayed to London and married two of the richest men in England, dining with royalty while pushing for women's rights well into the twentieth century. Vividly telling their story, Myra MacPherson brings these inspiring and outrageous sisters brilliantly to life.Guide. to. Abbreviations. BPL =Victoria WoodhullMartin Papers, Boston Public Library ECS =Elizabeth Cady Stanton IBH ... Tucker Sachs =Correspondence between Benjamin Tucker and Emanie Sachs, New York Public Library VW = Victoria ... Henry James and Harriet Beecher Stowe: Richard Wightman Fox, Trials of Intimacy: Love andLoss in the BeecherTilton Scandal (Chicago;London: University ofanbsp;...
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At the Daily Beast, Lloyd Green writes about the political outcome of the rise in crime:
From New York to Chicago, Baltimore to New Orleans, and Milwaukee to Dallas, the hydra-headed scourges of crime, murder, and mayhem have returned. And as the country hurtles towards 2016, this grim reality could prove to be a political nightmare for the Democrats. But, for the Republicans, crime represents a well-trodden pathway to power.
Let me explain. As in 1968, crime again stands to dislodge the Democrats from the White House, in the same way that in 1988 crime helped propel George H.W. Bush to Ronald Reagan's third term.
Look around—history can repeat itself. This past week, three men gunned down police Lt. Joe Gliniewicz in the President's adopted home state of Illinois, even as people were mourning the execution-style killing of Darren Goforth, a Harris County Texas Sheriff's Deputy.
Yet Obama and his party appear helpless, hostages to the same demographic forces they courted, and then rode to power. Having staked their future on the volatile axes of race and income, the Democrats are now witnessing crime reemerge as a campaign issue, and they are out-of-touch and ill-prepared, to say the least.
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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump's supposed knack for negotiating business deals ensures he'd make a pretty good president, according to MSNBC's Joe Scarborough.
The cable host's remarks came Tuesday morning as he complained that journalists and other East Coast media types don't give Trump the respect and credit he supposedly deserves.
"I get Trump's success," he said, adding, "I don't get [2016 presidential candidate Ben Carson's] success. I don't know. Is that just me?"Read more on WashingtonExaminer.com


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Anita Bains (licensed and certified advanced practice registered nurse) is a dynamic, creative and client-centered psychotherapist who uses a unique and holistic approach that incorporates alternative and complementary therapies.
Ever on the cutting edge of research and practice, Anita brings to her work new and profound insights emerging from quantum physics that explain how we can generate meaningful shifts in consciousness that allow us to move beyond the limits we place on ourselves into a world of new possibilities.
In private practice since 1990, Anita engages her clients in a positive process of personal transformation. She studied with leading authorities in the field of integrative health and formerly served as the president of Psychiatric Advanced Practice Nurses of Maryland. She was also the American Psychiatric Nurses Association state representative to the Congress on Advanced Practice in Psychiatric Nursing.
Anita was a researcher for the Soul Medicine Institute's Iraq Vets Stress Project led by Dawson Church, Ph.D. This research project tested the effectiveness of Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) to reduce combat-related stress in veterans. The results showed statistically significant decreases in symptoms associated with combat-related trauma.Anita has presented these findings at a number of congressional meetings and in discussions with military personnel.
In June 2009 Anita was a presenter at the Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine where she spoke to Chinese medical students about the power of energy psychology to effectively engage the body's innate ability to heal. In 2005, Anita was among an outstanding group of presenters for the Living Mastery Seminars that included Bruce Lipton, renowned cellular biologist and author of The Biology of Belief. Anita is also an invited speaker at local universities and community groups.
Skilled in complementary techniques, Anita works with her clients in a gentle and encouraging manner to help them develop new perspectives and to resolve past and present issues related to trauma, loss, depression, and anxiety.
As subconscious limiting beliefs are released, emotional stress is reduced, strengthening the body's own natural capacity for healing. New insights and perspectives arise easily as the mind clears and tension decreases.
Anita's philosophy is that though clients may feel broken, none of us are broken. Using the tools and techniques Anita provides, clients discover that they have the ability to attain the health and well-being they desire.
With a commitment to continued personal and professional growth, Anita is passionate about learning new skills that she shares with her clients.
Anita lives in Maryland and has a thriving practice with offices in Towson, and Bethesda. She is available for psychotherapy, as well as for presentations to professional and community groups.
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Sek Henry scored seven of his 21 points in the second overtime and Nebraska ended a seven-game losing streak with an 83-79 victory over Texas Tech that put a dent in the Red Raiders' NIT hopes on Saturday.
Henry hit a jumper and 3-pointer to break a 73-73 tie, then made two free throws to put the Huskers (14-15, 2-12 Big 12) up 80-76. Lance Jeter made three of four free throws in the last 44 seconds to hold off the Red Raiders.
Nick Okorie scored 28 points, Brad Reese 19 and John Roberson 15 for Tech (16-12, 4-10), which lost its fifth straight.
Brandon Richardson added 15 points, Brandon Ubel 14 and Ryan Anderson 12 for the Huskers.
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DIT Lecturer Olivia Freeman features on RTE Brainstorm
21 February 2018
Opinion: The currency of likes: how and why teens use social media
DIT Lecturer Dr. Olivia Freeman from DIT College of Business, School of Marketing shares her opinion 'Research tells us a lot about the who, what and how many of teens and social media usage, but substantially less is known about why and how teens engage with social media' on RTE's Brainstorm.
The statistics which emerged from the recent Secondary School Digital Trend Report published by Zeeko provided thought-provoking reading for Irish parents. The results of this research were covered in the media with salacious headlines like "Sexting: do you know what your teenager is doing on their phone?". The research revealed that 34 percent of 6th year students surveyed had engaged in 'sexting', defined as the act of exchanging sexually explicit content online in the form of images, videos and text.
Speaking to RTÉ News, Zeeko's head of research Dr Marina Everri commented that this result should not be greeted with alarm by parents and that this behaviour was in line with young people's developmental desires to explore sexuality and establish romantic relationships. She did, however, also call for education programmes that teach children to critically assess the content and potential risks associated with "sexting".
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Taking your tablets abroad - do the stupid deserve everything they get?
Data roaming on your iPad or tablet PC can be up to 1,000 times more expensive than equivalent 3G internet use in the UK, Which! has discovered - particularly outside of Europe.
Yes, it's news to us, too. No, wait a minute it's not at all. What's the opposite of news? Linkbait? PR fodder? Yes, it's that. While we love our friends at Which!, publishing damning research that using an iPad abroad can cost a lot of money feels like less of a story, more a statement of the bleeding obvious.
The consumer champions use number-play to paint a dire picture of using tablets abroad: on the basis that a customer can purchase 1 GB of domestic data from Three, Which! then goes on to point out in countries like Canada, Three charges £10 per MB, meaning a bill of £10,000.
Now, while the figures are absolutely true, there are some common sense factors which have to be ignored. For instance, for a tablet owner to drum up such an extortionate bill, they must:
• be completely unaware that using data abroad incurs significant costs: this is incredibly difficult in 2011. It means a person has somehow dodged years of horror stories from friends, family and colleagues, and never once read a news story highlighting roaming charges.
• ignore all network and device warnings concerning roaming charges: unexpected holiday bills aren't anything new, which is why handsets at least are blitzed with texts from the moment you touchdown in foreign climes. Your network will warn you how much data costs, the native network will warn you how much data costs.
The argument of whether roaming charges are too high and bear no semblance to the actual service costs is a separate issue. The issue is how detached from the world you have to be to use any data-intensive device abroad and not expect to incur charges. Short of prizing tablets out of stupid people's clammy hands at the airport, it's uncertain what else network operators can do.
We can't have it all ways - we can't piss and moan at operators about how we're all grown-ups when they introduce mandatory age verification on browsing, then protest when we choose to ignore numerous warnings and several years of marketing and media coverage when we choose to use devices abroad.
Is there more networks should be doing? Or should consumer accept some responsibility for their own actions?
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- james D.Also people could use wifi abroad.
- Nick T.Shouldn't that be ¡Which!
- klingeltonA friend of mine recently returned from abroad to a bill of £500 with orange. I didn't immediately think "oh my lord, you must be kidding if they expect you to pay that!" Instead i thought "dumb cunt"
- JohnRShould the consumer apply common sense? Yes. Are the costs charged by carriers fair? Absolutely not. I think you've missed the latter point somewhat. ZDnet summed it up well I think: http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/mobile-working/2011/04/21/tablet-data-roaming-sees-1000-fold-mark-ups-40092602/
- Paul S.I've read ZDnet's article and I haven't missed the point - I wholeheartedly agree that the charges are excessive. The point above of the article is a completely different one, in that some people appear to ignore years of the issues being highlighted and the warnings they receive when they go abroad, so who is ultimately responsible in these instances? There's a consumer case to put to the mobile operators, but in the meantime it's not an excuse for stupid.
- Mark H.A lot of people are new to mobile data. It's something they may never have used on their mobile phone but are just starting to make use of on their new shiny 3G iPad. The mobile companies should just start charging a fair price for their services and there wouldn't be a problem. They would most likely make more money that way too.
- NogharThis is what happens when you market a device so intuitive any idiot can use one. Idiots use it.
- Chris@Noghar Agreed!!
- Linda C.Have just returned from a months cruise in the Caribean to a charge of over £10 on top of my usual fee of £15 On 3. I switched off roaming. And only used free wi fi. Have not received an explanation ?


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|Jatoba fretboard w/Abalone oval inlay
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|MR4 bridge (14mm string spacing)
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|Bartolini® MK-1 neck pickup (Passive)
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Jatoba has a reddish brown color which produces a rich mid range with a crisp high end.
The Mono-Rail Bridge is the ultimate in string isolation for bass. Each saddle is independently and securely locked down to the body for maximum vibration transfer and no interference. One screw controls the height of each saddle for easy adjustment.
GVB36 features special 14mm string spacing, compared to our usual 16.5mm spacing. This narrow spacing allows for playing chords with much more ease, a staple of Gerald's playing style.


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It's gonna get sappy up in here.
Something so simple, so quick and cheap – so why hadn't I done it before? Laziness, I suppose, and fear – what if I came out looking like a total freak? With terrifying cartoony commas above my eyes?
I'm talking about having my eyebrows tinted. This was the final act in my years-long struggle to boost my feeble, over plucked (curse you, the '90s) brows, which has seen me trying pencils, powders and goodness knows what else to fill them in. Eventually there was nothing left to try, apart from tattooing I suppose and quite frankly that was never gonna happen.
So I booked into my local salon, City Beach in Spitalfields for an eyebrow tint, out of sheer curiosity. I'd given myself some escape routes – an extra-long fringe that needed trimming to hide the damage, if there was any, and a week's holiday where I wouldn't be seeing anyone I knew except for my beloved.
I'm not normally such a coward when it comes to beauty treatments and their results – I'll happily walk around looking like a piebald pony covered in multiple brands of self-tanner at the same time, or have a skin-flaying facial right before a fancy party, but my eyebrows are... different, precious, sacred even.
Anyway. I wanted to have my eyebrows tinted because on holiday it's nice to wear as little make-up as possible – bare face, just a bit of mascara and tinted lip balm for evenings. So instead of having to pencil in my eyebrows every day so I didn't look like an egg while lounging by the pool, I thought I'd get them done for me.
And guess what? It worked! I lied down on the bed, my therapist painted on the dye with delicate little brush strokes (I'd been in earlier in the week for a patch test on my arm which added to the piebald pony effect) and she left the dye for about 5 minutes, then wiped it off. And that was it!
In fifteen minutes tops all the little blonde eyebrow hairs that had been lurking invisibly were forced to pull their weight – dying them to match my dark hair gave my eyebrows an immediate boost – they are thicker and fuller and look totally natural – much more so than when I pencil them in, because with the best will in the world, a pencil can never replicate natural hair colour precisely and even if you're really good at doing super-fine lines, it can still look a bit blocky.
I honestly couldn't believe that such a simple, cheap treatment (it cost £12) could have such an impact. This is on the same level as having my teeth whitened, but approximately eighty times cheaper! The dye has faded now – the therapist told me it would happen because of being out in the sun and swimming, so I'm definitely going to go back for a boost soon.
I feel like I finally have 'my' eyebrows back – the ones I foolishly and recklessly plucked away back in 1995. And that's what I think beauty treatments and products should do for you: not transform you into someone else – that never looks convincing – but help you feel more like yourself.
Is there a treatment you've never tried that you're curious about? Or one that always makes you feel more like you? Share!


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When first hernia repair break down with a need to repair them again, it is called a recurrent hernia. Successive attempts to repair are a relatively complex process. When organs slip out of their original place through a weakness in the muscle into another cavity, it is called hernia. Remedial operations for a hernia are elective surgeries except when hernias are incarcerated or strangulated. Recurrent hernias come in different sizes and shapes. Results are based on the type of anaesthesia, operative approach, obesity and associated medical comorbidities.
Causes of failed hernia repairs
Commonly before the advent of mesh repairs, recurrent hernias were discovered right above the pubic tubercle. Hernias of the internal ring and lateral portions and interstitial were commonly noticed due to the extensive usage of anterior onlay plugs and mesh repairs. Small and short-changing tails of the grafts around the spermatic cord were related to failures after an onlay graft repair, both lateral and medial to the plug. With the onlay graft being placed sutureless, recurrences were observed at the pubic tubercle. Inguinal hernias when they recur within the first year of operation are due to an infection that damages the repair or metabolic complications of the tissues of the groin. Another reason for recurrence is due to the methodology of surgical repair. Traditional hernia repair surgeries excised the hernial sac and a mesh stitched on the weak spot or hole. The reaction of the mesh takes time and during this period, if the patient develops any condition which increases the pressure inside the abdomen, like continuous cough/sneezing, excessive weight lifting, longstanding constipation, obstruction to urine outflow etc can lead to increased chances of hernia recurrence.
Generally, a recurrence of hernia after a previous open repair is best repaired by laparoscopic approach. Recurrence after a previous laparoscopic repair is best repaired with open method.
Dr. Deepak Varma helps patients by performing dependable hernia operations and ensuring that rate of recurrences are low. His surgeries are perfectly suited to each individual case.


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Judo hall de witte molen, public sports centre (Sint-niklaas, Belgium)
Jan Burm, Environment and Energy Coordinator of the City of Sint-Niklaas: "As a municipality we want to set a good example with regard to the environment: we invest in sustainability and enjoy being a leading light this area. We want to be green and invest in daylight but not if the sports centre turns into a sauna as a result. That was the problem with the existing light domes we had. It became extremely hot in summer in our judo hall. We had to paint our domes white just to make the indoor temperature bearable."
The initial situation? The dojo hall of a sports centre, a room of around 160 sqm of surface area with a ceiling height of around three metres. In the ceiling there were already three light domes (double hull) built into a wooden construction. In summer the temperature was exceptionally high and in winter the domes even leaked on stormy days.
The solution?
The four existing light domes were removed, the size of the existing roof openings was reduced and 4 LightCatchers were installed that distribute the light evenly across the whole floor. Always intense white light (at least 400 lux) that isn't blinding even on the hottest summer days thanks to the prismatic lens system under the LightCatcher dome: ideal for sportspeople. Temperature fluctuations are also a thing of the past. The static air layers of the LightCatcher block the heat transfer completely to 0.2 degrees Celsius.
The customer's verdict: Burm: "We planned this project just before the darkest winter period but we noticed straight away that the domes were good and there was excellent lighting, even on a cloudy day. These domes light up a lot more surface area so the number of openings in the roof has been reduced and the building's insulation has considerably increased. After this test it seems appropriate to place LightCatchers elsewhere as well, such as on the roof of the Finance department building."
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|All the lights were on because the domes didn't provide even lighting.
|Plenty of heating in winter, plenty of ventilation and huffing and puffing in summer.
|The domes had to be painted white every summer.
|The lights are off for an average of 10 hours a day and in winter, the heating can be set lower.
|Annual savings thanks to the LightCatcher:
|8,760 kWh per 100 sqm (calculated at a saving of € 1,130 per year).
|Annual reduction in CO2 emissions:
|6.6 tonnes per 100 sqm.
|What about the temperature?
|It doesn't feel like a conservatory in summer anymore and in winter there is a 2° C saving in heating.


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Music of choice N.Ravikiran, a beautiful Indian Classical album I discovered through my very cool husband who always seems to discover the great stuff before I do.
A Lot has happened to me spiritually and mentally in the last few weeks. When it doesn't rain it storms and that's exactly what I have been experiencing. I had so much to do that my brain actually stood still like a "brain freeze" kind of way but without the freezing part, obviously……so basically nothing like it, haha! (Ag what am I saying) I am sure you have felt this way, right?
From exciting campaigns and playing incredible shows I am feeling more blessed than ever and to top it off I have an incredible team backing me up! I have been writing a lot of new material and there are at least two albums that are running around in my head. Only time will tell when I'll be back in studio.
God has been teaching me so much. I have realized or shall I say manifested that when you meditate on the word of God, He lights up every part of your thinking. Super naturally things start to happen. As the light enters through my window the skyline starts changing colours, from a soft yellow to almost a blue grey. I realize another day has ended and already, I am asking questions about tomorrow.
Whatever your God is doing for you let it be known, that He loves you with everything He has got and HIS everything, is YOU. I leave you bold and beautiful and may you leave your digital device feeling loved……
Much Love
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Securus Technologies Secures Yet Another Payment Processor
In early January of this year, Securus Technologies continued its addition of subsidiaries with the purchase of GovPayNet. This payment processing company is based in Indianapolis, Indiana and was formed in 1997. Since then they have gained contracts with more than 2,300 government agencies to provide electronic credit and debit payment processing. The acquisition of GovPayNet, along with its previous acquisition of JPay, gives Securus the ability to process more than 40 million electronic payments yearly. Mark MacKenzie will stay on as CEO of GovPayNet, a role that he has been in since 2012. This is the latest in a long line of subsidiary acquisitions that Securus has made over the past decade. GovPayNet was formed in 1997 and operate in 35 states, with their services provided to over 25% of U.S. counties.
Securus Technologies owns over 20 subsidiaries that provide technology solutions for inmates, corrections facilities, and law enforcement agencies in the U.S. and Mexico. A few of their companies include JPay, Telerus, and CellBlox. These companies and others provide a number of services including cell phone detection, biometric analysis, telecommunications, payment processing, and others. They provide technology-based services to over 1.2 million inmates in over 3,500 corrections facilities. Founded in 1986, the Dallas-based Securus Technologies employs over 1,300 people in both Texas and Atlanta, Georgia.
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While debutant Chris Woakes stole the limelight after holding his nerve to hit the winning run from the final ball, it was Morgan's composed 43 from 33 balls that formed the foundation of the chase against Australia.
The left-hander had spent the majority of the tour down under kicking his heels on the sidelines - he had faced just 17 balls in two months - but there was little sign of rustiness.
Morgan kept his side well ahead of the required rate in the middle overs and while his failure to see England home could be perceived as a product of his recent inactivity, it proved valuable enough to set up victory despite a late-innings collapse.
"Morgs has been superb in Twenty20 and one-day cricket," Collingwood said.
"We probably keep leaving it up to him a bit too much if we are honest, but he showed his class again.
"He's been waiting in the wings and is very patient but when it comes to this form of the game he's a special talent."
Collingwood also reserved praise for 21 year-old Woakes, who the skipper admitted he knew little about before his match-winning 19 not out from 15 balls.
Woakes took little time to convince Collingwood and those inside the Adelaide Oval of his ability with the bat though, when he hooked a fearsome Shaun Tait short ball into the stands.
It was a memorable stroke against one of the fastest bowlers in the world and Collingwood was impressed.
"It was incredible," he added. "Tait had given him some lip the ball before and he's just said he was expecting it to be a bit short and he got it out the middle.
"It was a fantastic performance by him. To be honest I hadn't seen much of his batting, (team director) Andy Flower said he was a serious batter.
"Graeme Swann was a bit disappointed he was ahead of him (in the batting order) but as soon as he hit that six off Tait, Swanny just doffed his cap at Andy and understood why he was behind him.
"He looks a serious batter as well, you can say he's a true all-rounder.
"He thinks about the game as well and that's crucial."


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Team Obama Floats Plan to Tax Cars By the Mile
Big Brother Barry wants to track your every move. Team Obama is floating a plan to tax American drivers by the mile. That would do wonders for the economy.
The Hill reported:
The Obama administration has floated a transportation authorization bill that would require the study and implementation of a plan to tax automobile drivers based on how many miles they drive.
The plan is a part of the administration's Transportation Opportunities Act, an undated draft of which was obtained this week by Transportation Weekly.
The White House, however, said the bill is only an early draft that was not formally circulated within the administration.
"This is not an administration proposal," White House spokeswoman Jennifer Psaki said. "This is not a bill supported by the administration. This was an early working draft proposal that was never formally circulated within the administration, does not taken into account the advice of the president's senior advisers, economic team or Cabinet officials, and does not represent the views of the president."
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What are the pros? Longevity of plant
What are the cons? Has to be supported
First time growing sunflowers and totally blown away with the quality, colors, and longevity of these plants! Had several blooms per plant and the bees loved them! Will grow these every year.
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What are the pros? Trap plant, pretty, unaffected
What are the cons? None
I planted some of these and they didn't sprout, so I planted a few more, and now I have bunches of sunflowers because they all ended up growing! They are perfectly fine growing like this and I can't help but notice the incredible amount of leaf hoppers on them! Stink bugs seem dis-interested unfortunately.
The hundreds of leaf hoppers don't seem to affect the plant and its a good way to congregate them for a soap spray.
Transplants fine, tolerant of being submerged.
Planting these everywhere next year or as soon as I get more seeds!
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What are the pros? unusual color,multiple flowers
What are the cons? broke during storms
I live in SW MO (zone 6b). I planted these because sunflowers are supposed to be a good deterrent for harmful insects and I don't like to use pesticides. These were very easy to grow, had great germination and required no maintenance except I did have to tie them upright because storms would break them. The finches love them.
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What are the pros? Easy to grow, beautiful
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This was my first year to grow Autumn Beauty Sunflowers and I am blown away. I garden in containers called Garden Anywhere Box. I planted about 8 seeds to the box and harvested all summer. I love that there are multiple flowers at a time. I have a Pinterest page where I compile my daily harvest pics: http://www.pinterest.com/gardenanywhere/garden-anywhere-box-2014/ If you want to see how the sunflowers did, check out my pinterest page. I harvested all summer and planted again in August. I didn't know if they would make it until a freeze, but I wanted to take a chance. We ended up building a little greenhouse and I was able to move my boxes inside. I am harvesting sunflowers right now.
What are the pros? Many flowers on each plant
What are the cons? low germination /weak branchs
Grew these alongside "lemon" sunflowers. These paled in comparison. only 50% of my seeds germinated compared to nearly 100% with the "lemons". the plants are small and I was disapointed in the colors. I expected a variety of bright colors but did not get that. Perhaps the soil PH is not what they liked. The flowers are small but pretty and would make a good arangement. I will not purchase this variety next year.


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Here is what happened during the Twenty Seventh week of documenting our flipping houses adventures. If you missed the first post explaining what I am doing, please visit this page: See How We Are Flipping Houses.
These are the things I did this week:
Spent More Time Trying To Find A New Contractor
The journey continues in my attempts to find another good contractor for the rehabs on the houses we are flipping. I had met several of the ones I felt the best about after some calls to give a bid on the work needed at the 'honk your horn' house.
Here is the post I wrote concerning the process: Finding and Interviewing Contractors for Your Flip Houses
One contractor stood out and seemed like he would be a good fit. His estimate came in a couple grand high, but he accepted my counter bid for the job and we agreed to meet at a restaurant to go over my contract and get the paper work (contract and W9) so that he could get started the next day.
This is where my patience was tried. Seems like I have less and less patience these days. First, he was about 30 minutes late. I accepted this because I called him with little notice as to when I could be there, so not really a biggy. He was off in his estimate of when he could be there though. Splitting hairs?
He sat down and started to read my contract and the scope of work (was not drawn up when we went over the job). I was very patient with him while he was going over the contract because I wanted to make sure he read the whole thing and that we were clear on everything that it states.
The key points of the contract being:
- He will be an independent contractor, not an employee.
- Agrees to do all work described in the scope of work in a professional manner and use the materials specified in the materials specification.
- The cost of the job, including materials.
- That they are expected to keep a clean jobsite.
- That I have to approve all work to my standards.
- All change orders will be in writing with accepted time estimates and cost estimates, before any additional work is performed.
- I have every right to cancel the job if I am not satisfied at any point.
- A penalty is given if the work is not done by the deadline (with consideration given to weather and other delays).
- The contractor warrants the work performed for at least a year.
He started to hesitate as he read my materials specification. Specifically the cost of the bathroom vanities. The vanities cost $199 each at Home Depot. He informs me that I told him they would cost $59 each when going over the work at the house (a perfect example of why you should have your scope of work ready BEFORE you meet contractors – shame on me).
I'm not sure who in their right mind would not question $59 bathroom vanities with tops. I don't think I've ever seen any that cheap. If I did, I'd sure question their quality and/or durability. At this point he started crunching numbers while hiding them with his folder. Very sneaky. Not sure what kind of math equations he was trying to solve as it took him nearly 20 minutes to crunch whatever numbers he was crunching.
After I'd had enough of this secret number crunching, I informed him that I was busy and that he needed to pick up the pace a little. I had figured he was starting to become concerned about how much I was going to control the job and was thinking it through while writing numbers in his binder. Maybe he was just trying to figure out the pay for his guys based on the work and time (something he should have done before agreeing to my price over the phone and possibly why he was throwing out wild numbers for the materials – so that he could negotiate with me at the table).
By now we had been sitting there for about an hour. He then mentions that he understands I have things to do and that he would look over everything at home and call me to schedule meeting at the job to get started the next day. I told him that if I did not hear from him that night, I would assume he did not want the job (can't go chasing or waiting for someone for days to make up their mind). He assured me that he wanted the job and that he just needed to go over the contract really good.
I never heard from him.
I didn't wait long and called more contractors to meet with.
This is an ongoing process that I wish was easier. But again, spend the time up front to find the right person so that you don't have a lot of problems during the project and end up having to fire someone.
Closed on the 'Front Yard Stink' House
Finally closed the 'Front Yard Stink' house. Here are the before rehab pictures and details.
Work Still Progressing On Our House
Tiling is nearly completed and looks AWESOME! The wood floors will then go down, the vanities and bath fixtures will be installed, shower glass will be ordered and we will be set to move in. Oh yeah, still have to call the home alarm company, the cable and internet provider, family to help move, get boxes…oh man, what have we gotten ourselves into again?
Flipping Houses Discussion Facebook Page
Have you 'liked' the Flipping Houses Discussion Facebook page yet? What are you waiting for?
Total Motivated Seller Leads This Week: 16
|Lead Source
|Leads This Week
|Bandit Signs
|Wow. Some are still up?
|Yellow Pages
|For a picture of my ad, visit the 'The First Week' post.
|Buying Website
|For a link to my site, visit the 'The First Week' post.
|Drive For Dollars
|Have not done this in a while.
|Wholesale Deals
|Made Offer
|Absentee Owner Mailing
|Have not mailed in a while.
|From non-specific letter.
|Just a basic ad saying we buy houses.
|From another investor that buys in different price range.
Total Leads To Date [406]
This is the total number of leads for each source since I started posting about the leads (late March 2011).
|Lead Source
|Total Leads To Date
|Buying Website:
|Bandit Signs:
|Yellow Pages Ad:
|Absentee Owners:
|Driving For Dollars:
|Probate Letters:
|REO Realtors:
|MLS Search:
|For Sale By Owner:
Leads Analyzed
- Manufactured Home In A Park
[Source: Website]
Homeowner wants to sell a 3 bedroom, 2 bath, 1300 sf manufactured home on a rented lot.
Here are the numbers:
Asking Price: Make An Offer Amount Owed: $50,000 Repairs: cosmetic (unconfirmed) After Repaired Value: $?? Max Offer: $??
Seller is moving out of town and needs to sell this '98 manufactured home. I do not buy manufactured homes that don't come with land. Could not do this one. Next.
- Doesn't Want Two Mortgages
[Source: Website]
Homeowner wants to sell a 3 bedroom, 2 bath, 1000 sf house in a so-so neighborhood.
Here are the numbers:
Asking Price: $50,000 Amount Owed: $22,000 Repairs: $12,000 After Repaired Value: $65,000 Max Offer: $23,000
Want to sell this house because they have two mortgages and don't want to be landlords. They are asking quite a bit, but don't owe that much so I went to see it.
Had to see this one on a Saturday. Sometimes you just gotta do what you gotta do. Wish I hadn't. I really did not like this house at all. The neighborhood is actually somewhat of a bad one. The house needs a lot of work and has a horrible carport covering the length of the front of it. I told them I would basically need to buy it for what they owe on.
They were not interested but I will follow up and see if that changes.
- Inherited And Does Not Want To Deal With It
[Source: Website]
Homeowner wants to sell a 2 bedroom, 1 bath, 1000 sf house in a not-so-good neighborhood.
Here are the numbers:
Asking Price: $50,000 Amount Owed: Nothing Repairs: a lot (unconfirmed) After Repaired Value: $45,000 Max Offer: $20,000 – repairs
Mother passed away and the seller inherited the house. He does not want to have anything to do with it because it needs a lot of work. These situations will usually turn into a deal. He was not acting like he wanted to lower his price though, so I decided to just pass on the lead. I'm sure with some follow up this will turn into a deal.
- Living Out Of State An Cannot Afford
[Source: Website]
Homeowner wants to sell a 3 bedroom, 2 bath, 2200 sf house in a decent neighborhood.
Here are the numbers:
Asking Price: $125,000 Amount Owed: $112,000 Repairs: cosmetic (unconfirmed) After Repaired Value: $120,000 Max Offer: $78,000 – repairs
Seller has this house rented and needs to sell because they are not paying and he cannot afford. He lives out of state and is not interested in a short sale. Nothing I can do. Too much is owed. Next.
- Moving To Another House
[Source: Website]
Homeowner wants to sell a 3 bedroom, 1 bath, 1000 sf house in a not-so-good neighborhood.
Here are the numbers:
Asking Price: $20,000 Amount Owed: $0 Repairs: a lot (unconfirmed) After Repaired Value: $40,000 Max Offer: $15,000 – repairs
Seller is moving into another house. This one needs a lot of work and they just don't want the hassle of fixing it up and renting it out. Don't care for area and was busy this morning (seller was contacting other investors), so I passed it on to another investor that was able to see it sooner.
- Wholesale Priced Too High
[Source: Wholesaler]
Wholesaler wants assign a contract for a 3 bedroom, 2 bath, 1500 sf house in a decent neighborhood.
Here are the numbers:
Asking Price: $67,000 Amount Owed: $64,000 (under contract for) Repairs: $12,000 (based on pictures) After Repaired Value: $95,000 Max Offer: $50,000 – ($62,000-$12,000)
Wholesaler assigning contract for a decent house. The problem with this one is that the comps that have sold recently were all rehabbed very nicely with more than what we typically do for this price range house. I had to adjust either the ARV or the repair costs to make it accurate. I adjusted the repair cost to reflect the higher cost in doing more to the house and the numbers just don't work, no matter how you slice it.
- Girlfriend Pregnant and Need a Bigger Place
[Source: Bandit Signs]
Homeowner wants to sell a 3 bedroom, 2 bath, 1400 sf house in a decent neighborhood.
Here are the numbers:
Asking Price: $108,000 Amount Owed: $85,000 Repairs: cosmetic (unconfirmed) After Repaired Value: $105,000 Max Offer: $68,000 – repairs
Seller needs a bigger house. Not sure why a 3 bedroom is not big enough for three people, but they have more kids. It's not for me to figure out unless there is more to the story. Which doesn't matter much because too much is owed. They are not behind on payments, so I will just have to pass on this one.
- 2 Manufactured Homes On Single Lot
[Source: Craigslist]
Homeowner wants to sell two manufactured homes on a single lot outside of town. The mobiles are early eighties and need a lot of work. Definitely something I am not interested in, especially with the $90,000 price tag. Next.
- Father Passed Away
[Source: Website]
Homeowner wants to sell a 3 bedroom, 1 bath, 1200 sf house in a not-so-good neighborhood.
Here are the numbers:
Asking Price: $40,000 Amount Owed: $0 Repairs: cosmetic and updating (unconfirmed) After Repaired Value: $60,000 Max Offer: $35,000 – repairs
Son inherited the property when his father passed and he just wants to sell it fast. He was insisting on netting the $40k which I knew I could not do. I'm sure he would be willing to drop given some time. This area is not one that I prefer so I passed the lead on to another investor.
- Re-Evaluated Life Course
[Source: Website]
Homeowner wants to sell a 3 bedroom, 2 bath, 1500 sf house in a good neighborhood.
Here are the numbers:
Asking Price: $125,000 Amount Owed: $121,000 Repairs: cosmetic (unconfirmed) After Repaired Value: $110,000 Max Offer: $72,000 – repairs
Seller has decided to change paths in life and this includes selling this house. That is fine but it might take a little time and/or some money, because I cannot buy the house when more is owed than it is worth. Sorry.
- Divorced and Moving
[Source: Website]
Homeowner wants to sell a 3 bedroom, 2 bath, 1600 sf house in a decent neighborhood.
Here are the numbers:
Asking Price: $95,000 Amount Owed: $53,000 Repairs: cosmetic (unconfirmed) After Repaired Value: $90,000 Max Offer: $59,000 – repairs
Divorce situation and the seller just wants to get away from the house and all of the memories. Only got an email with this one, so I am waiting for a response on when I can see the house.
Update: seller responded and I gave a ballpark that the seller become offended by and demanded to know why I would need to buy it so low. They were politely informed that I cannot pay full market value and so on and so forth. I also felt it prudent to inform them that tone is always hard to convey by email and that I was not trying to be rude and that it would have helped had they given a phone number so that I could call them. No go.
- Medical Disability and Behind On Payments
[Source: Website]
Homeowner wants to sell a 5 bedroom, 3 bath, 2000 sf house in a decent neighborhood.
Here are the numbers:
Asking Price: $90,000 Amount Owed: $88,000 Repairs: long list of repairs (unconfirmed) After Repaired Value: $110,000 Max Offer: $71,000 – repairs
Medical disability has caused seller to fall behind on payments. The days on market are high and there is just too much owed.
- Don't Want Hassle Of Selling Through Realtor
[Source: Website]
Homeowner wants to sell a 3 bedroom, 2.5 bath, 1700 sf house in a good neighborhood.
Here are the numbers:
Asking Price: $115,000 Amount Owed: $102,000 Repairs: $4,000 (carpet, exterior trim, tile) After Repaired Value: $140,000 Max Offer: $87,000 ($91,000 – $4,000)
This one was a tricky one. The seller called me while I was headed out this morning to take care of business at several houses. He mentioned that another well known investor in town had made an offer a couple of weeks ago and he had accepted it. The problem was that the investor was out of town when he accepted it. So, he had to wait until he got back to get the contract signed.
The seller started making plans as if the house was already sold. He put an offer in on another house and had mentally made the leap and separated himself from his house. It was sold. He had already moved on.
Then his world was shattered when the investor came back from out of town and only then did he inform him that he was unable to buy the house at this point. This devastated the seller and sent his head spinning.
He seemed really motivated to be done with the house when he called me. Guess he was having trouble accepting that his house was in fact not sold and still very much his problem.
I was able to squeeze in a showing of the house between my appointments (not usually this busy) and saw the house. It did not need very much at all. Now that I had a repair estimate I needed to figure out comps. I ended up doing a market analysis at my attorney's office while handling the closing on the 'Front Yard Stink House'. I'd just quickly glanced over the comps and figured it should sell for about $150k.
As I was leaving the closing, I kept wondering why the other investor had backed out and started doubting my quick analysis of the comps. I called an investor friend and asked him to run comps for me and give me his opinion. He figured that $150k-$160k was safe.
Even with these numbers the deal would have been tighter than I'd like, but I figured I could find someone to want it at just above what he owed. My gut kept telling me to recheck the comps more closely though as the other investor had backed out without reason.
When I got home, I checked the comps and realized this was a case where a thorough review of the comps was necessary. The houses in the neighborhood were very similiar but there was a bigger than normal difference between prices for single story and 2 story houses. There is usually a difference, but not one this big. The singles were selling for about $100/sf and the 2 story houses were selling for about $80/sf. That's a big difference!
He wants it paid off and would not consider sub2. Have to pass on this one.
- Ex Passed Away
[Source: Referral]
Homeowner wants to sell a 3 bedroom, 1 bath, 1700 sf house in a so-so neighborhood.
Here are the numbers:
Asking Price: $55,000 Amount Owed: $53,000 Repairs: a lot (unconfirmed) After Repaired Value: $65,000 Max Offer: $40,000 – repairs
Seller had separated from her ex years ago and he recently passed away. He was living at their house and was not taking care of it and had not been making payments. Now she is facing foreclosure and doesn't want that on her credit. There is just too much owed to make this a successful flip.
- Assume Inside Needs To Be Gutted
[Source: Probate Letters]
Homeowner wants to sell a 2 bedroom, 1 bath, 1200 sf house in a decent neighborhood.
Here are the numbers:
Asking Price: Make An Offer Amount Owed: $20,000 (about) Repairs: a lot (unconfirmed) After Repaired Value: $65,000 Max Offer: $40,000 – repairs
Brother just died and he needs to sell this house because he lives out of town. The house is completely run down and there is a balanced owed. He told me to just go by the outside and make an offer assuming everything inside needs to be replaced, because it does. He is aware of the condition of the house and wants to see what I would offer.
He just started probate and told me that he is in no rush. I will go by this weekend and have a gander.
- Unsure Why Selling
[Source: Website]
Homeowner wants to sell a 2 bedroom, 1 bath, 1300 sf house in a so-so neighborhood.
Here are the numbers:
Asking Price: $75,000 (least will take is $68,000) Amount Owed: $45,000 Repairs: some repairs (unconfirmed) After Repaired Value: $65,000 Max Offer: $40,000 – repairs
This is a website lead and the seller did not leave any info about why they are selling. Probably was/is a rental property and the owner lives out of town a ways. Too much is owed for what it is anyway.
Calls were more steady throughout the week this week instead of all flooding in on Monday. I've slowed down a little on the marketing because I need to get the rehabs under way and get the new house ready for move AND coordinate that move in. Lots of work ahead of us for the next couple of weeks.
Plans For Next Week
- Update 'Honk Your Horn' house post details with scope of work and cost.
- Get estimates for work at the 'Front Yard Stink' house.
- Send out some more postcards.
- Get new house closer to move in.
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July 7, 2015
This day was my second day of being a field interviewer. I was placed under the supervision of Ms.Paz. My first impression to her was super strict and professional. I also thought she was snobbish but I was wrong. We met inside KFC, MRT Ayala at 9 am. I arrived exactly 9 but they came 1 hour after. Haha that's fine, I managed to took my breakfast first thou I didn't like KFC that much.
We discuss a bit about the project details then proceed to look for Glorietta's administrative office. I met two field interviewers of MRC which was Ate Marina and Ate Yolly. They are both bubbly and industrious individuals. Upon checking the permit in the administrative office of Ayala, we found out that the permit for our project was effective tomorrow and not today so we have to proceed to Greenbelt instead. I was with Ms.Paz and we are to position in Greenbelt 2. Greenbelt, I thought was an up-class mall indeed. The Greenbelt 2 was pure restaurants so I had a hard time gaining interviews. There were no benches and it's not your typical mall. Everyone has to go inside each restaurants and eat then go. They are all in a hurry so it's a big delay for them and a challenge for me to conduct this ambush interview.
I approached everyone I thought might allow me to borrow some of their precious time but it's really tough to find one who is willing to be surveyed. I got 10 refusals after I got my first completed interview with a female adult belonging to upper class. She first asked me about the validity of the survey and for the permit of the project. Off course I had a permit on-hand to show her and explained the purpose of the study. I buffer a bit while asking her because Ms.Paz was butting in. I understand why she did that but I'm still not confident.
I was glad to have my second complete within an hour from my first one. This time I'm much confident and familiar with the questionnaire. It's an awesome feeling to accomplished your task earlier than expected.


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